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IkranMakto

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I thought Squad were going to fix 10000% efficiency of new propeller and helicopter blades in 1.8, but they didn't :/  Why not to put drag point into lift point? 
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Here it is. Infinite flying free energy plane created in 2 minutes. Rear elevons rotate 6 small propeller blades which produces a lot of forward thrust, but almost no drag. Breaking Ground laws of physics. 
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It is even bigger problem than just infinite energy. 

Look. I have to clip smaler blades inside main rotor of my last helicopter to produce drag and downforce, otherwise no need for tail rotor.
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What happens if I remove these "drag" blades and tail rotor as I said. No SAS and no reaction wheels. Only cyclic control.
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First, this vechicle flies stable and not going to spin. Second is its required power...
I decreased engine torque as possible, so now it produces 150-180 nm at 180-190 rpm. 
A bit of calculation here:
190 rpm is around 19.9 rad/s
150 nm * 19.9 rad/s = 2985 watt or 4 horsepower.
As powerful a vacuum cleaner, but lifts 1200 kg helicopter. 
Power/mass ratio for this one is 0.0025 kW/kg, that's 100 times less than real helicopters need(0.25 kW/kg).

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15 hours ago, KerikBalm said:

Free energy is a big problem imo, but power to weight not so much

One follows from the other. Free energy is "too high" efficiency, which comes from too high thrust/lift compared to drag. Developers choose the worst way to simulate helicopter blades just to make it easy to use. And very unrealistic. Instead of explaning to players what is dissymmetry of lift and how avoid it using blade flapping and feathering. 

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